The media's obsession over Manny Machado's future spiked yesterday with news that Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager would undergo Tommy John surgery and miss the remainder of the season. Meanwhile, anything you read is speculation. But it still makes for good copy. The Orioles might be more inclined to move him. The Dodgers might be willing to surrender prospects for a rental, though it mostly goes against their norm. I'll repeat that executive vice president Dan Duquette didn't put a block on...

What's this? Do the Nationals have a chance tonight to go on - dare we say it? - a legitimate winning streak? They've won two in a row, and now they send Max Scherzer to the mound, a development that has produced a 5-1 record so far this season. Scherzer will need to keep up his winning ways tonight against the Pirates, and he'd certainly like to reach at least the seventh inning for the first time since April 14 against Colorado. He's working on an extra day of rest, so that should allow...

Baseball weather is finally here, and it's time to celebrate! To get you excited for summer nights at The Yard, we'll be on-site Thursday, May 2 for the first of WTMD's First Thursday concerts of the season! MASN's giveaway tent will be set up for the concert at Canton Waterfront Park, beginning at 5:30 p.m. For the second year, there will be two stages at the event. All evening long, we'll be hooking up concertgoers with social snapshots, chances to win free T-shirts, free schedule...

The Orioles have been named the fourth-most affordable Major League Baseball experience, according to Team Marketing Report (TMR). The TMR Fan Cost Index represents the cost for a family of four to attend a game based on the price of four tickets, four sodas, four hot dogs, two beers, two souvenir caps, and one parking pass. The Orioles offer among the most affordable prices in the league for several categories. TMR's previous report ranked the Orioles as the ninth-most affordable MLB...

One key to the Nationals' success is any time they can get or push a starter past six innings. Turns out that's all Tanner Roark wanted. On Monday, thanks to Roark's seven innings, the bullpen was set up nicely. "I was just trying to be aggressive," Roark said. "I knew they were a good hitting team. I knew they were aggressive. Just trying to keep them off-balance and feeling uncomfortable at the plate. "Sinker was working really well tonight. Everything was working very well. (Matt)...

ANAHEIM, Calif. - As the Orioles begin a six-game West Coast road trip tonight, shortstop Manny Machado continues to be one of baseball's best hitters. Machado is batting .361/.448/.676 with seven doubles, nine homers, 22 RBIs and an OPS of 1.124. We have just a small sample of one month to look at, but Machado has become one of those rare major league hitters that has drawn more walks (17) then he has struck out (16). His walk-to-strikeout ratio of 1.06 is easily the best of his career. That...

With a pair of walks - both intentional - during Monday night's 3-2 win over the Pirates, Bryce Harper racked up his 37th and 38th free passes of the season. Only Barry Bonds, with 39 in 2004, has ever drawn more walks in March/April. Harper enters May with a .458 on-base percentage, tops in the majors. Which is a good thing. Except Harper isn't doing much else these days besides drawing walks, which is a bad thing. With only five hits in his last 35 at-bats - all of those singles - he has...

Davey Martinez sat down for his postgame news conference, minutes after yet another nip-and-tuck affair, and sighed. "That was exciting," the Nationals manager said. "We've got to start scoring runs when we can. They're playing well, they really are. But when we have a chance to put teams away, we've got to start putting them away." It needs to be stressed at this point that the Nationals won tonight's game. They beat the Pirates 3-2 to produce their first two-game winning streak in two...

One way the Nationals can get on a roll is for their leadoff hitter to lead the way. Shortstop Trea Turner did that Monday night, going 3-for-4 with an RBI in the Nats 3-2 win over the Pirates. They have now won three of their last five games. He set the tone by taking an extra base after a Ryan Zimmerman fly out to right field late in the game. But in a rare night for Turner, he didn't actually score a run in a game where he had three or more hits. That happened four times in 2016, but not...

The back end of the Nationals' bullpen would've loved a blowout win - and the respite that would accompany it - tonight. Alas, this team doesn't enjoy many blowout wins these days, last Wednesday's 15-2 thumping of the Giants serving as a distinct anomaly. So it should have come as no surprise to anyone inside Nationals Park tonight when the home team carried a one-run lead into the eighth, forcing Davey Martinez to once again coax high-stress innings from his overtaxed bullpen. Somehow,...